The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-17

the smoker which was on the rear end
of the train, falling in the midst of the
coaches. As the cars lie in their pres
ent location they present picture OF
such absolute demolition it seems re-
markable that any person in there es-
| capped alive. In the mass Of Splinters
in the railway are pools of blood and Oc-
casionally portion of a body can be seen
although such disconnected portions
/ of human remains as are found art
hurried away to the MOrgue; still there
| are pieces of flesh to be seen sometimes
fastened between the timbers as If
actually gouged from some victim.
| THE CONDUCTOR'S HORRIBLE DEATH.
Conductor Tilden was in the third
car which remained on top of the en-
bankment and on the ground directly
| underneath where he stood, when
killed, is a pool of blood, while half of
the debris Of that coach is spattered
with blood. Underneath this debris
were picked up the breast and lungs of
| a human being, possibly a portion of
| the Conductors body. That the hor-
\ rors of fire were not added to the terri
BILE disaster was due to the promptness
| with which relief was sent. A chemi-
cal engine from RoslyndaIe was at the
scene within twenty minutes after the
wreck occurred. The flames We're soon
xtinguiShed and the firemen did excel
lent work in reScuing the injured. The
stoves in all the cars were securely
| fastened TO the floors by iron bolts and
| doors locked. In only one car did the
| stoves upset.
TIE NEWS OF THE DISASTER
| spread through the city very rapidly,
| and in a short time the wreck was sur
| rounded by an immense crowd of peo-
pie, attracted by curiosity or in search
of relatives and friends. The scene
| just after the disaster was narrowing
in the extreme. The only person known
| to have been an eye witness of the dis
aster who WAS not in the train was j
Ill. Lennon. For a moment Lennon saws
there was perfect quiet and then the
cries of the injured were heard issuing
from the debris. Selling an AK. Len
nou started for the wreck, climbed into
the window Of one of the. coaches and
began to release persons who had been
pinned down by broken timberS. With
his ak he released four men badly hurt
and handed them out of the window to
other men who had come to the rescue.
He also handed out the dead bodies of
two women, one of whom was nearly
decapitated and had both arms severed
from the body. During all this time
Lennon says the shrieks of the wound
ed and
ORGANS OF THE DYING
were horrible. In the mean time
other passengers from the coaches on
top of the eInbankment who had eS-
capped serious injuries, joined in the
work of rescue. The engine that re-
manned on the track proceeded at once
to Forrest Hill, where the engineer
sent ont the order by telephone to the
city. In short time, corps of res
cueTs and surgeons from the city were
at the scene. Ambulances and hacks
were sent from the city within half an
hour, and as these conVeyances reached
the scene they were started back to the
city
LADEN WITH DEAD
bound to the city morgue, or with in
iured destined for the hospitals. a
large number of injured were also tax
en- to residences in the vicinity to DE
cared for, while others were sent to
the depots at Forest Hill and Roslyn-
dale. Four dead bodies were also tax
en- to the depot at Roslyndale. BY the
time the first regular passenger train
from the city reached the scene laden
with anxious people, nothing could be
seen but the splintered and shattered
cars lying on the -embankment or in
the roadway. All the dead
and injured had been remov-
ed to the morgUe, hospital
depots or residences, and the survivors,
also all disappeared. George SanfoTds,
of Roslyndale, was in the car, and tells
a THRILLING STORY
of his experience. He said: Il took
the train at Roslyndale with my mother.
We were sitting in the middle of the
second car. There was absolutely
nothing to give premonition of the dis
aster. All at once there was u crash.
deafening noise, a moment or two of
grinding of timbers and then for a mo
ment all was still. 1t had come with
such awful suddenness that everybody
seemed paralyZed. Then arose confus-
ion, sounds from the wrecked
cars below, voices calling out
ing for aid, while all around us
were graons from those who were badly
hurt or dying. The floor of our car
seemed TO be forced up to the roof, the
entire coach having collapsed apparent
| ~ when the crash came. Our heads
| were banged against the roof, while the
seats were strewn about everywhere.
Many people were under the seats
and some were crushed between them.
| Directly in front of us sat man
| named Ryan. We were cOnversing
with him ut the moment of the crash
| \ moment after the wreck when / SAW
him again, he was actually
| RUN THROUGH AND THROUGH
| by splinters from the bottom of the
car. My mother and | were fastened
in between our seat and Ryan's but
managed to break off Ryan's seat anC
release ourselves. My mother haC
! tainted and at first / thought she was
dead. pulled her out through win
dow and she soon revived in the opeI
air. | then sent her home and devoted
myself to helping release the impris
oned passengers. The sight among th'
debris in the roadway was horrible
There were many people dead, pinned
down by the timbers and many wound
ed. All were horribly mangled
l saw one man working iki
la Trojan To help Others
The top of his scalp ant
his left ear We're nearly torn from hi
head and he was covered with blood
but he did not realize it. After all hat
been removed from the car IN
was working at, some ont
told him hemust be badl.
hurt himself. He said he thought not
that he had received only a scratch
He put his hand to his head and TIN
next moment tainted away and wa
conveyed to neighboring house. H
was pretty badly hunt. The train wa
running at great speed, but had slowe'
up as soon as it neared the junction a
Forest Hill. The quickness witt
which the crash came was remarkable
1t came in an instant. like a flash o
lightning.
Found at Last
New BRUNSWICK, n. j., March H.